Run Hermes Agent with Nous Portal
This guide walks you through running Hermes Agent on a Nous Portal subscription end to end — from signing up to verifying that every tool routes correctly. If y
This guide walks you through running Hermes Agent on a Nous Portal subscription end to end — from signing up to verifying that every tool routes correctly. If you just want the overview of what the Portal is and what's in the subscription, see the Nous Portal integration page. This page is the task script. …
What this page covers
- Prerequisites
- 1. Get a subscription
- 2. Run the one-shot setup
- What if I'm SSH'd into a server?
- 3. Verify it worked
- 4. Run your first conversation
- 5. Pick the model you actually want
- Don't pick Hermes-4 for agent work
- 6. (Optional) Customize Tool Gateway routing
- 7. (Optional) Enable voice mode
- 8. (Optional) Cron + always-on workflows
- Profiles and multi-user setups
- Troubleshooting
- hermes portal info shows "not logged in" after hermes setup --portal
- "Model: currently openrouter" (or some other provider) instead of "using Nous as inference provider"
- Tool Gateway tools showing partner names instead of "via Nous Portal"
- "Re-authentication required" mid-session
- Model I want isn't in the /model picker
- Billing not appearing on my Portal account
- Want to revoke and start clean
- What this gets you, in plain numbers
- See also
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